Cotton-chopper



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J. B. ROBINSON.

COTTON SHOPPER.

Jaffe/dw? Patented Oct. 6, 1885.

NTTEE STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN BALEY ROBINSON, OF VVILFORD, TENNESSEE.

COTTON-SHOPPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 327,594, dated October 6, 1885.

Application tiled April 22, 1885. Serial No. 163,087.

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, J. B. ROBINSON, of Wilford, in the county of Wilson and State of Tennessee, have invented an Improved Cotton-Chopper, of which the following is a speciiication.

The object of the invention is to chop out and thus thin as well as work the rows ofyoung cotton-plants after the Scrapers have passed on each side of the rows.

Figure l of the drawings is a plan View, broken away to show clutch and hoe-handle. Fig. 2 is a rear view in cross-section.

In the drawings, A represents the frame, in which the shaft B has its bearings. On the outer ends oi this shaft are loosely arranged the ground-wheels O O, which may loe clutched or unclutched with the shaft in any well-known way, or bythe clutch c OC On this shaft, just inside of the frame, are placed the spurwheels D D, which mesh with the spur-wheels E E on the countenshaft F.

Attached rigidly to each of the spur-wheels E E are crown-wheels E F, which mesh with the pinions G G on crank-shafts H H. To each of these crank-shafts is pivoted the rear end of a handle, I, carrying at its front end a hoe, J. The handles are provided with longitudinal slots t', through which pass the crossbars K K, made fast to the frame. By this down motions.

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ated as to make themcut ont a portion of the plants and leave a proper number at intervals in the rows, while the space between the grow- 5 ing plants is thus cultivated.

In front are the usual Scrapers, L L, which run on each side ofthe rows in advance ofthe choppers.

L represents two shovels, which loosen up 4o the soil next to the plants and in advance of the choppers, to facilitate their action and give a working to the crop as it is thinned out.

In bringing the machine to the eld the 4,5

wheels are unclutched from their shaft, so as not to operate the choppers, and the same may be done when turning at the ends of the rows.

Having thus described all that is necessary 5o to a full understanding of my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to protect hy Letters Patent, is

Acotton-chopper having two hoes,JJ, crossing each other from opposite directions, hav- 55 

